
Success
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-109
STS-109 (SM3B) was a Space Shuttle mission that launched from the Kennedy Space Center on 1 March 2002. It was the 108th mission of the Space Shuttle program, the 27th flight of the orbiter Columbia and the fourth servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. It was also the last successful mission of the orbiter Columbia before the ill-fated STS-107 mission, which culminated in the Columbia disaster.
Mission type: Astrophysics · Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Rocket: Space Shuttle · Provider: United Space Alliance
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA · View on map (opens in new tab)